Patrick Wintour
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Today in Focus · Trump extends Iran ceasefire: can a deal be made? – The Latest · 22 Apr 2026
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that he's undertaken in the past is too high and he wants to find a peace settlement.
So he's slightly switching mode and trying to think about different ways to put pressure on the Iranians.
And I think also there is more and more evidence about what's going to happen in the midterm elections.
I know this will seem a long way away, but it's starting to bake in a bit about how many seats they might lose in the Senate and how many they might lose in the Congress.
And that would be...
If it was as bad as some people are predicting, that would be the effective end of his presidency.
Yes, I mean, I think the ghastly phrase, the kinetic activity has switched from land to sea, and there are these two different blockades, one laid over the other.
There's the US blockade on Iranian ports, and the purpose behind that is to, in effect, make it impossible for Iran to continue to produce oil within a matter of a fortnight, it's been estimated today.
If they can't get their oil out, then the oil production will have to come to a halt.
And that could cause some permanent damage to some of the oil installations in Iran.
So they lose revenue and their industry, which is the most important revenue generating industry, gets crippled.
I mean, that's the American plan and obviously the Iranian plan, which they're stepping up by now.
seizing ships is to keep the chokehold on the strait and 20% of oil and most commodities go through that strait.
So the Iranians are continuing to use this metric of what is the price of oil.
As long as it's going up, they're happy.
But I think it is significant they're now starting to seize ships because
They need to really ram home to the Americans that they feel they're winning this war, or at least they're not losing this war, and that they're in a totally resolute position.
That then will feed back into what the both sides feel they should do in terms of returning to talks in Islamabad, because they're just both strengthening their hands ahead of those talks ever happening.
It's not just the Iranians.
I mean, for some strange reasons, I was with some diplomats last night from the Caucasus and they were just saying that and they've got their own kind of peace agreement.
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